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IASA World Congress 2013 at Szczecin, Poland

America. America. AmeRICA. The Americas. A mythologized New World, oceans apart from the Old, yet not a day younger. America: a projection that first obliterated and then replaced the reality of the dual continent before its existence, rhetorically undone, could be acknowledged. Re-textualized anew before they could be explored and exploited, contemporary Americas have since become a complex palimpsest: the oldest text barely visible from under the plethora others, inscribed upon the erasure of previous ones.Americas' "vertical" histories are constantly being added: with every passing year, the palimpsest transforms by the power of "horizontal" discourses of history rolling across the oceans to the landmasses of the world: to Americas, across Americas, and from Americas again. It is the transoceanic dynamics of history that the debate proposed focuses upon.DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO APRIL 1STFor more information, visit our web site